{"id":6964,"date":"2015-09-25T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/a-warning\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T11:38:00","slug":"a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Apropos of my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/09\/my-time-away-where-i-was-and-what-i-did.html\" target=\"_self\">last entry<\/a>, a warning to those may be thinking of heading for the desert.&#0160; The following observation from a November 2009 post, &quot;Demons of the Desert.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The desert fathers of old believed in demons because of their experiences in quest of the &quot;narrow gate&quot; that only few find. They sought to perfect themselves and so became involved as combatants in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0913836524?v=glance\">unseen warfare<\/a>. They felt as if thwarted in their practices by opponents both malevolent and invisible. The moderns do not try to perfect themselves and so the demons leave them alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Distracted from your distractions, you may get more than you bargained for, phenomenologically, if not really.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of my last entry, a warning to those may be thinking of heading for the desert.&#0160; The following observation from a November 2009 post, &quot;Demons of the Desert.&quot; The desert fathers of old believed in demons because of their experiences in quest of the &quot;narrow gate&quot; that only few find. They sought to perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/a-warning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Warning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}